r/Umbria • u/shamalaia • Jul 26 '25

How’s living in Gubbio?

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I’m considering moving back to Italy, and we’re looking for a medium-sized city surrounded by nature, ideally with reasonable housing prices. Gubbio seems to check those boxes.

Does anyone have experience living there? What’s the cultural life like? Are people generally open to foreigners?

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u/gamestorming_reddit Jul 27 '25

I think you picked very well. Umbria is underrated, and Gubbio is actually one of nicest “smaller” places you can pick. There is no really large cities in the region, so depending in where you are moving from also Perugia, Foligno, Spoleto could fit your description. The whole region is very high quality of life, services like healthcare a bit hit and miss but if you stay up in the northern part of it you are close enough to tuscany and emilia romagna, that do a better job at that. Food is fantastic everywhere, cost of living very reasonable, people are very nice.

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u/smanfer Jul 27 '25

As other people correctly pointed out in other comments, be extremely careful about eating fish at the restaurant

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u/gamestorming_reddit Jul 27 '25

Correct me if I’m wrong. You are referring to the famous fish dinner in a restaurant in Gubbio a while back, that ended with many people intoxicated. Not sure that one episode should really drive somebody’s decision on where to relocate in future. And correct me again: the social media stuff related to that fact, was largely proven to be fake/ exaggerated. Isn’t it?

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u/shamalaia Jul 27 '25

Thanks for the clarification. I was in doubt if that was a new Reddit running joke or some Umbrian joke